DHS official says next FEMA chief needs credentials

[The Straight Story]

DHS official says next FEMA chief needs credentials

By Daniel Pulliam
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The chief of the Homeland Security Department's new Preparedness Directorate said Wednesday that the next director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency should have experience managing emergencies.

Several months into his job as Homeland Security's undersecretary for preparedness, George Foresman said that based on discussions with the DHS secretary and deputy secretary, and knowledge of the system, he is confident that the person appointed FEMA director "will have the appropriate credentials" to reassure Congress and the public.

Foresman, confirmed for the job in December 2005 and previously the preparedness and homeland security adviser to the governor of Virginia, told members of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology that, while the new FEMA leader needs to have crisis management skills, those abilities could be gained through a wide variety of experience, including work in law enforcement and firefighting.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA Director Michael Brown was widely criticized for lacking disaster management experience.

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[Flirtus]

1. file under: things that make you go "duh"

[The Magistrate]

2. Another Blinding Flash Of The Obvious, Sir

[northofdenali]

3. Really? What would make him think that?

Idiot.

Nah, just hire someone who runs a pig farm in Crawford, Texas.

[Hekate]

4. Like it was under Carter and Clinton?! Doh!

Thousands had to drown before this became apparant?

May God have mercy on the Bush admin's souls, because I sure won't.

Hekate